Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:
I've been rewatching Bones recently which, if you haven't seen it, pairs an uber-rational forensic anthropologist (Dr. Temperance Brennan) with a grounded Catholic FBI agent (Seeley Booth) in a crime-fighting duo.
While her intellect is impressive, it can be tear-your-hair-out annoying to hear Brennan pontificate because — despite her IQ, her logic, her reliance on the scientific method, and her sola ratio approach — she completely disregards an entire swath of data: namely, the human experience.
In Adam Blai's Introduction to "The Catholic Guide to Miracles," we see someone who has done precisely the opposite. "I want to be a rational person," he writes, "and the truth is that, given what I have seen, it would be irrational to deny the spiritual world."
This past year has wrought extreme changes — including in education. I have read about classic English curriculums being replaced with critical race theory propaganda, children chanting to the Aztec god of human sacrifice, and teachers and public officials compiling a threatening list of parents who even appear to question this rhetoric.
What can we do? "The Catholic pursuit of truth, beauty, and goodness and the Catholic understanding of human dignity and the common good provide a framework for dealing with perennial challenges facing humanity," writes Daniel Guernsey, "including the current cultural crises concerning race and gender." See "The Remedy for 'Canceling' and Division: Catholic Education."
On a lighter note, I enjoyed Thomas Lickona's "Can't Get Your Kids to Mind? Try the 4 E's." "At all developmental levels, authoritative parents are the most successful at raising confident, competent, and socially responsible children. A 15-year-old girl captured the essence of this approach when she described her authoritative parents as "firm but democratic."
Thank you all for your prayers, and God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez |
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
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Protected, Guarded, and Consecrated in Truth - John Cardinal O'Connor - from A Moment of Grace on the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Anyone who has spent a significant amount of time at sea knows how comforting is the light of a lighthouse.
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Lockdown's End - Theodore Dalrymple - City Journal.
Amid the calamity, some compensations
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Editorials of Interest
A Reply to the Discouraged Seminarian: There Are 6,000 Reasons to Remain Catholic. - OnePeter5
My answer has the sincerity of a person who has himself been wounded by members of the hierarchy, who has been denied speaking platforms on account of upholding the traditional Faith, and who has also stared into the abyss of corruption and apostasy that mark the Church on earth in our times — and yet who believes, finds reasons to believe, and, indeed, finds reasons for hope.
Detachment - Ignitum Today
When Mary Magdalene finally recognizes Jesus, the Lord says something mysterious: "Don't cling to Me."
Efficiency is the Enemy - FS
There's a good chance most of the problems in your life and work come down to insufficient slack. Here's how slack works and why you need more of it.
The Threat of Woke Supremacy - Crisis Magazine
Supremacist movements are evil. This statement is obvious to our modern Western minds when we are speaking of racial supremacy, but ideological supremacy is just as bad, if not worse.
But Is It Safe? - WCC
Not long ago, I heard a psychologist saying that the most important thing in his practice is the safety of his clients.
The Masculine Gentleman - Crisis Magazine
Few boys enjoy the benefit of being raised by the kind of man's man who was my father.
On Demons - First Things
According to the Talmud, the demons are more numerous than we are.
The Greatest Christian Novel - First Things
When Dostoevsky wrote his last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, the revolutionary movement that would lead to Bolshevism was well underway.?
Sybil Ludington - Revolutionary War
Sybil Ludington became famous for her ride to warn the Patriot militia of the British coming, similar to that of Paul Revere, but Sybil was only 16 years old.
St. John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |
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